Hillary Clinton’s war in Libya continues to wreck our national security

Have you heard? Hillary Clinton has joined the #Resistance! Clinton, one of the few molecular structures on earth capable of losing a presidential election to Donald Trump, announced the merger earlier this month, and surely the opposition to Trump is thrilled, as it now counts among its members both her and the equally magnetic Kathy Griffin. Thus does Clinton continue to rattle around in the Democratic attic like Jacob Marley, only rationalizing her errors rather than atoning for them.

Clinton has been such a political liability that it’s easy to forget that she’s been a policy liability as well. Nowhere is that more evident than in Libya, where in 2011 President Obama launched a military campaign against Moammar Gaddafi’s regime after being persuaded to do so by Clinton. Gaddafi was toppled, the deja vu scenery of Iraq fell into place, and Libya plunged into chaos, tugged between multiple governments in its west and east with a plethora of militias battling in between.

Clinton was occasionally challenged on the campaign trail over her calamitous Libyan adventure, first by Bernie Sanders and then by Donald Trump, but she deflected the criticism and the issue rarely rose above the fold. Then horror came to Manchester, England, last week as a bomb exploded at an Ariana Grande concert, killing 23 and injuring 116. The terrorist behind the attack, identified as Salman Abedi, was of Libyan descent. His parents were part of an Islamist opposition group to Gaddafi called the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, and fled their home country in the 1990s. They settled in Britain amidst a diaspora of fellow expatriates.

The elder Abedis would return to Libya in 2011 to fight Gaddafi during the civil war. Subsequent trips to the Northern African country by Salman would cause him to change, becoming more religiously puritanical and dropping out of university. Friends and neighbors became so alarmed that they reported him multiple times to British authorities. Earlier this year, Abedi yet again decamped to Libya where he stayed for three weeks before returning just days before the Manchester bombing.

There are still plenty of unanswered questions here. Counterterrorism authorities don’t yet know whether Abedi received bomb-making training during his Libya getaway or how extensive his jihadist interactions were there. It’s also important to note that Manchester’s Libyan community is not some festering pool for extremism: most of its members were saddened by Abedi’s bloodshed.

What is certain is that since Hillary Clinton convinced Obama to lead a military coalition against Gaddafi—very much from the front, not from behind—Libya has become an epicenter of Islamic extremism in Northern Africa. ISIS for many months designated as its auxiliary capital the city of Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown; government forces drove the group out late last year, but it regrouped in the Libyan desert where it maintains a presence.

Terrorists behind numerous attacks in neighboring Tunisia, including gunmen who killed 38 tourists at a resort in Sousse and jihadists who slew 21 during an attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, were trained in Libya. In early 2015, ISIS thugs beheaded a group of Coptic Christians kidnapped from Egypt on a beach in Libya. Weapons smuggled out of Moammar Gaddafi’s stores have been used to inflame conflicts in Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Gaza, as well as the Syrian Civil War. Libya is also far more proximate to the West than other terrorism hotspots like Iraq; a literal jihadist beachhead has thus been established only a skip across the Mediterranean from Italy.

So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Manchester attacker also traces back to Libya.

What should unsettle even the most grizzled foreign policy observer is just how little attention the Libyan connection has received over the past week, and how scarce the scrutiny of Hillary Clinton’s war has been. Glamorizing her pathetic post-election self-pity is what makes the Rebecca Traister profile, I suppose, while serious foreign policy analysis gets left on the cutting room floor. But unlike allegations of Trump’s collusion with Russia for which there is no concrete evidence, Clinton really did help turn Libya into a jihadism-rampant vacuum.

That’s an actual scandal, one the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” crowd might look into.

Longtime Clinton crony, Sid Blumenthal, is a $325,000 employee of the Clinton Foundation AND at the same time, Sid was pocketing bigtime from David Brock's n/p's and had several side interests.

Blumenthal's side business nterests all depended on war profiteering...... on the US attacking Libya and the toppling of Khadaffi to get at the Libyan treasures Khadaffi hoarded.

Sid was ambidextrous----constantly eemailing Secy Hillary w/ one hand....the other hand firmly ensconced in the State Depr cookie jar/slush funds.

Sid self-servingly told Hillary---Obama would lose reelection if she did not attack Libya.

Obama supposedly banned Sid from employment at the State Dept......so, of course, Obama knew NOTHING about this (smirk).

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OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT L/E should interrogate Sidney Blumenthal and individuals in the Clinton Foundation for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify official documents to further fraudulent schemes. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents submitted by Sidney Blumenthal, the Brock n/p's, and The Clinton Foundation for falsified entries.

Crimes might include--govt fraud, conspiracy, collusion, falsifying official documents (a felony), money laundering, tax evasion, extortion, theft, misuse of public facilities. Examine Blumenthal's tax returns with a fine-tooth comb.....particularly entries for "interest income."

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Money Laundering Scheme Exposed: 14 Pro-Clinton Super PACs & Non-Profits Implicated
zerohedge.com ^ | Sep 20, 2016 / FR Posted by Helicondelta

David Brock has 7 non-profits, 3 Super PACs, one 527-committee, one LLC, one joint fundraising committee, and one unregistered solicitor crammed into his office in Washington DC.

Uncovered records expose a constant flow of money between these organizations. The Bonner Group, his professional solicitor, works off a commission. Every time money gets passed around, Bonner receives a 12.5% cut.

Follow the money. Say, for example, you donate $1,062,857 to Media Matters for America. This is how David Brock would have used your charitable donation in 2014:

1- Media Matters would receive your $1,062,857 donation The Bonner Group would earn a $132,857 commission; Media Matters would retain $930,000

2- Next, Media Matters would give what’s left of your entire donation, $930,000, to the Franklin Education Forum The Bonner Group would ‘earn’ a $116,250 commission.The Franklin Education Forum would retain $813,750

3- The Franklin Education Forum would then forward the remaining $813,750 to The Franklin Forum. The Bonner Group would ‘earn’ a $101,718 commission. The Franklin Forum would retain $712,031

In the end, Brock’s solicitor would have pocketed $350,825, almost a third of your initial donation! That’s a far cry from the advertised 12.5% commission.

more at zerohedge.com

https://www.wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12089

H: HIGHLY IMPORTANT! COMPREHENSIVE INTEL REPORT ON LIBYA. AND DRINK 8 GLASSES OF WATER. SID

From: Sidney Blumenthal To: Hillary Clinton Date: 2013-01-04 03:23 Subject: H: HIGHLY IMPORTANT! COMPREHENSIVE INTEL REPORT ON LIBYA. AND DRINK 8 GLASSES OF WATER. SID

UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05797576 Date: 01/07/2016 RELEASE IN PART B6

From: Sidney Blumenthal Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 10:23 AM To: Subject: H: HIGHLY IMPORTANT! Comprehensive Intel Report on Libya. And drink 8 glasses of water. Sid Attachments: hrc memo Comprehensive Intel Report on Libya 010412.docx

CONFIDENTIAL January 4, 2013 For: Hillary From: Sid Re: Comprehensive Intel Report on Libya

SOURCE: Sources with direct access to the Libyan National Government, as well as the highest levels of European governments and Western intelligence and security services.

1. In reviewing the events of the past year, as well as their plans for 2013, Libyan President Mohamed Magariaf and Prime Minister Ali Zidan discussed their frustration over the pace of efforts to define

the relationship between the legislature and the interim government, establish the authority of this national government throughout the country, and deal with security issues that have lingered since the fall of former dictator Muammar al Qaddafi in late 2011. Speaking on condition of absolute secrecy, a source with access to the Office of the President stated that during late December 2012 Magariaf and Zidan agreed that they must move quickly to deal with these problematic issues before

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